Thoughts about ads as second post

What are your thought about having an ad as second post in the forum for guest. I'm up in the air about it. I was also wondering what your thought are about removing all adsense for supporting members.

Here is a link to my site

I don't feel as my site is over kill for ads

ran it for a while... didn't perform at all. removed it

Thanks for the advice brian. I was hoping the lurkers would get tired of seeing the ads and just sign up.

They work pretty well for me after the first post, actually. #2 on my top channels.

chris what plugin' are you using for that it looks very nice and clean.

How would I be able to make a post into a channel?

Originally Posted by sportsmedjosh

chris what plugin' are you using for that it looks very nice and clean.

Thanks man. No plugins at all, here's my code:

Code:

<!-- Fist Post Adsense -->
<if condition="!is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 5, 6, 7, 18,12,17)">
<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1">
$spacer_open
$spacer_close
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
 <td class="thead" align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Sponsored Links</b></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td class="alt1" align="center">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "YOUR ADSENSE ID HERE";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
//2007-05-15: First Post
google_ad_channel = "8731239294";
google_color_border = "333333";
google_color_bg = "333333";
google_color_link = "0000FF";
google_color_text = "000000";
google_color_url = "008000";
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script><br /> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
$spacer_close
</if>
</if>
<!-- /FP Adsense -->

You'll want to edit that array to whatever usergroups you want to NOT see it, and put in your own adsense code. The whole snippet goes at the very bottom of postbit_legacy. (I haven't tried it with the old style postbit, but I believe it would be in the same place.)

Thank you, I'll have to try this out later on after I get the new forum up and running.

I was using this, and then after reading some tips on google i moved it under the last post....as more people are likely to read the last post as well as the first....especially if they plan on replying to a thread.

Do you think a ad above the quick reply would be better than last post.

not sure, I guess you can always test it out...if it doesnt work kill it....

what would i have to do chris to make that appear as last post.

^^ just change where he has:
<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1">

to

<if condition="$post['islastshown']">

Try both methods and didn't work

Which template are you putting the code into? It should be either postbit or postbit legacy..

NOTE: I also found out using the last post function, in some cases the quick reply function causes the redirect to go to a blank page....i had to switch mines back to the first post....